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AN APPLICATION FOR
FUNDS
The Hamelin Rat Catching
Association
29 Hatto Gardens
Lower Saxony
Tel: 020 7123 4567
Mr A Cannybody
The Secretary
Money Bags Trust
Lower Saxony
1 October 2002
Dear Mr Cannybody
REDUCTION OF BUBONIC
PLAGUE – RECRUITMENT OF ADDITIONAL RAT CATCHER
APPLICATION FOR FUNDS
EDUCTION OF
1. We are raising money to
employ an additional rat catcher.
2. Rats are increasingly
invading the Whitehall area of the town. There is no statutory rodent
control organisation and no chance of statutory funding. Rat carried
diseases are spreading, with an overall 10% increase in local hospital
cases, in the last year 3 children are known to have died of such diseases.
(Blunkett Report, May 2001).
3. Our Association is normally
supported by our own fundraising events (we raised over £4,000 last year)
plus appeals to local and national charities. We currently have an annual
budget of only £25,000, half of which is covered by income from an invested
legacy. The Lord Mayor is Chairman of our Management Committee We employ one
full time rat catcher (all other workers are volunteers).
4. In order to significantly
reduce the rat population, thereby reducing diseases and unnecessary child
deaths, we need to recruit, train and employ a second rat catcher. The Local
Health Authority have calculated that doubling the rat catching will more
than halve the related diseases in the second year of operation, with
further improvements in subsequent years and related benefits to the local
community of a reduction in child deaths and the release of hospital beds.
5 Additional
costs: Recruiting and training
£ 3,200
Equipment (van, pipes and telephone)
£15,000
Annual Running costs (salary, NI,
overheads) £22 500
First year total
£40,700
Subsequent years
£22,500 p.a. plus inflation
6 Our March 2002 application to
the Community Fund was rejected. We intend to reapply at the earliest
opportunity, but this is unlikely to be until 2003. We have already raised
£2,800 locally and the Robert Browning Trust have awarded us £5,000 plus
£3,000 p.a. for the next 4 years. We are asking all local trusts for help in
raising the balance (preferably to cover the next 4 years) and hope to
recruit in November this year. The Hatto Trust has refused, but the Hamelin
Foundation are considering a grant of £1,000 p.a. for 4 years
7. I enclose last year’s
accounts and would be pleased to give you any more information you need. Our
telephone is only manned between 3 and 5pm each weekday. Although we are not
a registered charity, the
Pied Charity (No. 123456) is
willing to administer funds on our behalf.
8 We are particularly hopeful
that you can support this appeal, as your generous donation to us in 2000
and practical support for the children’s marathon put our operation on a
sound footing then and the benefits
this new initiative will bring
to the local community relate closely to the aims of the Money Bags Trust.
P.
Piper
Association Secretary
Enc Accounts FY 2001
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